Doug Beeferman
Doug Beeferman
@doug.beeferman.org
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sir you are the moon
January 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Typical AI naysayer focusing on their abandoned children and not the sweet new raccoon family they’ve just inherited.
December 31, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.

Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.

Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
November 22, 2024 at 4:32 AM
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Re writing tools: Shout-out to OneLook Thesaurus, www.onelook.com/thesaurus/, which lets you (a) triangulate the word you want by listing the ones you vaguely know are adjacent to it (e.g. "crouch, hunch, huddle") and (b) still keep scrolling down to find the weirder outliers (hirple, brachiating)
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November 19, 2024 at 12:32 AM